Its awesome to see proof that buddhists in burma are violent as the article mentions,

"Sectarian violence in Myanmar first flared nearly a year ago in Rakhine state between the region's Rakhine Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya. Mobs of Buddhists armed with machetes razed thousands of Muslim homes, leaving hundreds of people dead and forcing 125,000 to flee, mostly Muslims"

It must be disappointing to see that not only are buddhist violent, but also have trouble in the bedroom.

And 1-2 child limit has nothing to do with religion, china have a 1 child limit aswell.

LOL at Muslims suggesting Buddhists have trouble in the bedrooms. It is common knowledge amongst prostitutes that Arab men are terrible lovers and premature ejaculators.(probably due to their Islamic induced sexual neurosis)

And self defence isn't violence. You seem to mistake the victim standing up to his bully as the violent one, when we all know the bully is the aggressor and initiator of such violence. The Buddhists are setting such a tremendous example to the rest of the world on how to deal with Muslim Scum. It won't be long before the Muslim scourge is cleansed from their lands. Good for them.

The reason I became a Muslim is I was searching for a way to be closer to God. I was doubting Christianity because it didn't make sense to me and I felt distant to God. In my darkest hour I cried out to God, I said Save me Lord, show me the right path. And I began to watch videos on Youtube and stumbled upon Muslim converts and their stories. I dug a little deeper and I read the Quran and found the proof I had been looking for. I felt God more than ever and became enlightened because I found the truth! It was then that I accepted Islam as the one true religion, the same religion as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed. They all worshipped the one God (Islam). He had no partners, no children, he never sacrifices anything to anyone. This life on Earth is a big test and we will be judged on all our deeds in the afterlife. Everything about Islam makes sense; there is no God but God.

Just read an awesome article about how Gandhi fucked the Hindus in India and empowered the Muslims. His non-violence philosophy was seen as a weakness to exploit by the Muslims which they did successfully. Gandhi's beliefs actually led to a lot of violence. Gandhi even considered Hitler a friend (talk about gullible) and criticised the few Jews who fought to save their lives. He suggested that the Jews should be willingly slaughtered. Gandhi was a fruitcake, and was a Muslim apologist who was responsible for much Hindu suffering. (that's why he was murdered eventually by a Hindu). He even suggested Britain give up arms and oppose Hitler with spiritual force. (Oh Brother!)

Gandhi Quote:"Even if Muslims decide to wipe out the Hindu race, there is no point in Hindus getting angry on Muslims. Even if they slit our throats, we should be patient and accept death. Let them rule the world, we will pervade the world and merge with it. At least we should not be afraid of death."

What a fucking fruit loop!

He also said the Jews should have offered their necks to the Nazi's knives or something like that. Hard for a lot of us to understand total pacifist thinking like that.

He also said the Jews should have offered their necks to the Nazi's knives or something like that. Hard for a lot of us to understand total pacifist thinking like that.

Gandhi was critical of the Jews who dared stand up to their oppressors with violence. How fucked up is that. I think non-violence beliefs leads to way more violence than a stance of choosing to use violence only when it is against those who initiate it against you. Gandhi was responsible for so much unnecessary suffering of his own people, that's why he was assassinated in the end. More often than not do-gooders create far more suffering than had they just left well enough alone.

Guantanamo Bay prison guard converts to Islam because of the living faith of Muslim detainees

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Terry Holdbrooks Jr., 29, wears the beard of a bald Amish guy, the tattoos of a punk kid, and the twitchy alertness of a military policeman. Take him to a restaurant, and he’ll choose the chair with its back against the wall. Take his photo, and he'll prefer to look away from the camera.

Part of that wariness Holdbrooks learned while guarding detainees from 2003 to 2004 at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. holding tank for military prisoners on the southeastern point of Cuba.

And part of that wariness he developed after he converted to Islam while stationed at Guantanamo after months of midnight conversations with the Muslim detainees – a conversion that prompted several of his fellow soldiers to try several times to talk some “sense” into him so he wouldn’t “go over to the enemy,” as they put it.

Holdbrooks told the story of his conversion and of his observations of the controversial detention center to an audience of about 80 people at the Huntsville Islamic Center in Huntsville Saturday night, May 25, 2013. The camp, he said, tramples on every human right the U.S. has said it is against. The current hunger strike by 102 of the 166 prisoners has crossed 100 days. Many of those men were cleared to go home five or six years ago, Holdbrooks said. Their home countries tell their lawyers the U.S. won’t release them, and the U.S. tells them their home countries won’t receive them.

“They’ve lost hope. They've decided it’s better to die,” Holdbrooks said. “One of them is down to 70 pounds.”

Holdbrooks is traveling with Khalil Meek, a co-founder and executive director of the Texas-based Muslim Legal Fund of America. They are raising money for that non-profit civil rights organization, which helps pay for legal help for Muslims who are American citizens and who have been accused of vague crimes or placed on no-fly lists and other restrictions under the increasingly broad “anti-terrorism” provisions.

Even more than raising money for legal defense, Holdbrooks said, he wants to stir Americans to action. Holdbrooks’ self-published account of his experience at Guantanamo, his book “Traitor?,” was published this month. It’s available for sale online at www.GtmoBook.com.

“I tell this story and I wrote the book so idiot-simple that anyone could read and understand that the existence of Guantanamo is something to be ashamed of,” Holdbrooks said. “I just want to share information with people in depth and then let them make up their mind.”“I may have become a Muslim, but I am not a traitor.”

12-year-old ‘terrorist’

At Guantanamo, Holdbrooks mulled over the information Army instructors has taught about Islam as he’d watched the so-called terrorists day after day. What he’d been told wasn’t lining up with what he observed. The detainees read their Qurans. They kept the daily schedule of prayers. They remained undiscouraged under horrendous pressure.

One of his duties was to escort prisoners to interrogations and then return them to their. He knew the kind of stresses and tortures they were undergoing in repeated questionings. He had dodged their thrown poop when anger ripped down the row of mesh wire cages. When detainees were punished with the “frequent flier program,” he’d moved men from one cell to another every two hours, round the clock.

“How can you wake up in Guantanamo and smile?” Holdbrooks asked them. “How can you believe there’s a God who cares about you?”

“I am happy to have spent time in Guantanamo,” said one detainee, the man who became his mentor, after his release. “Allah was testing my ‘deen’ (faith). When else would have I have five years away from all responsibilities, when the only thing I had was my Quran, and I could read it and learn Arabic and mental discipline?”

“Fortunately for us,” Holdbrooks said. “Most of them are bigger men than some of us would be.”

As Holdbrooks got to know the detainees, as he learned their stories during his long night shifts, he came to see the detainees as individuals. Many were men who enjoyed talking about the same things he does: Ethics, philosophy, history, religion. Many let him know what they thought of the 9/11 attacks: That they violate the teachings of Islam.

“Here, I had all the freedom in the world, and I’m miserable,” Holdbrooks said. “They have nothing, and they’re happy – it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out something’s going on.”

Terry Holdbrooks Jr. grew up a troubled kid with junkie parents who dumped him at 7 on his ex-hippy grandparents to be raised. By 18, he’d finished both high school – a year early – and trade school. He loved drugs, sex, rock-and-roll and tattoos – his ink would eventually cover his arms from shoulder to wrist. His earlobes have been stretched to a plug that a thumb could pass through.

So when Holdbrooks walked into an Army recruiter’s office in Arizona a year after 9/11 saying he wanted to join the Army, go kill people and get paid for it, the recruiter looked up briefly and turned back to his computer. “No, thank you,” the recruiter said.

“This was still right after 9/11,” Holdbrooks said. “The Army was flush with recruits, and they could take the cream of the crop.”It wasn’t until his fourth visit to the office -- when he took the ASFAB, the military’s aptitude test -- that the recruiter realized Holdbrooks was worth pursuing.

Holdbrooks signed up for military police because it offered a bonus. When his unit was transferred to Guantanamo, the sergeant detoured through New York to take them to Ground Zero.

“Remember what Muslims did to us,” the sergeant told the soldiers. “Remember who you’re protecting.”

So Holdbrooks arrived at the hot, seared base expecting hulking killers in every cell. What he found were doctors, taxi drivers, professors. One scary “terrorist” was 12. Another was in his 70s and dying of tuberculosis. Holdbrooks identifies himself as antagonistic, questioning, independent person. He is naturally suspicious – and found his suspicions turning in a surprising direction.

“You start thinking, ‘Was I lied to?’” Holdbrooks said.

Priceless gift

In the time he had off from his escort and cleaning duties at the prison, Holdbrooks began reading more about Islam online. The prisoner he talked the most to, a former chef from England, gave him his own copy of the Quran.

“You’ve got to realize the significance of that,” Holdbrooks said, his tough bravado breaking for a moment. “He’s in this cage for 23 and a-half hours every day. If you lose your Quran, you’re out of luck. That’s it. You’ve lost everything.”

It took Holdbrooks three nights to read it. As a restless seeker in his teens, he had studied Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, and never saw much sense in them. In the Quran, for the first time, he found a religious text that meets his logical criteria.

After three months of intense study and conversation, one night Holdbrooks told the detainee that he wanted to become Muslim.“No,” the man said.

“Whoa,” Holdbrooks said, stirring laughter during his talk in Huntsville. “The guard wants to embrace Islam, and the bad guy says ‘no’? I must really suck.”

The detainee explained what he meant. Converting to Islam meant Holdbrooks would have to change his life. Change his diet. Quit drugs. Quit drinking. Stop profanity. Quit getting tattoos. And be prepared for his relationships to everything – wife, Army, government – to change.

Little by little, Holdbrooks made the changes. Holdbrooks found a measure of health, discipline and peace of mind he’d never had before. And he found a family.

One night in December 2003, he was ready to stumble through the declaration of faith in Arabic. He read from a card on which the detainee had transliterated into English syllables the Arabic words for, “There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God.”

“I knew I’d finally said it right when their faces lit up,” Holdbrooks said.

After Gitmo

But after Gitmo, when he rotated back to the States, he lost his grip on both peace and discipline.

He was honorably discharged early -- for “generalized personality disorder,” the Army told him, although Holdbrooks wonders if his new faith influenced the decision. He and his wife divorced. He began trying to drink away his memories of Guantanamo.

“But you can’t drink away things like that,” Holdbrooks said.

By the end of 2008, he found himself wondering, “When was I happy?” The answer, he realized, surprised him: When he was in Guantanamo – because there he was being a good Muslim.

Holdbrooks been clean since 2009 – a victory he credits to following Muslim dietary codes, including daytime fasting several days a week all year, not just during Ramadan. Last fall, he married a nurse he met at his mosque. They had spent a year of careful getting acquainted in accordance with Muslim guidelines – which meant a lot of chaperoned visits. He’s finished a bachelor’s degree in sociology. He spends most weekends traveling with the Muslim Legal Fund of America to tell his story and to encourage Muslims to become involved in pushing for policy changes.

Holdbrooks is part of a small, but growing, number of former Gitmo guards who are speaking out about conditions at the center. But in addition for adding to the chorus calling for the camp’s closure, he has a message for fellow Muslims.

If the Prophet Muhammad were to come back to Earth today, Holdbrooks said, he would find the best examples of Islam in the United States. American Muslims have a responsibility to live their faith so others can see a true example, not the perversions of the terrorists or the tyranny of corrupt governments.

“You can’t be afraid to be a Muslim in public,” Holdbrooks said. “Tell your neighbors you’re Muslim. Invite them into your home. Invite them to visit the masjid to see our secret bomb factories.”

“If it’s time to pray – pray. The whole world is an acceptable place to pray.”

Source:Kay Campbell, reporter for The Huntsville Times and www.al.com)

yes I am a revert to Islam/Muslim just most recently ... I have been greatly blessed in my life ... travelled to most countries and lived in many and studied most religions and been most of them ... however in December this past one I visited Turkey Istanbul ... and there I was gifted by a Teacher of The Qur'aan ... Ali Kocak ... from Essenler Istanbul ... the English Translation by Marmaduke Pickthall of The Mighty Qur'aan. I was most enraptured by this as here in Pretoria South Africa where I live in the region of Northern Transvaal on the way to big 5 Game Farms at The Magaliesberg Prayer Mountain where my home is ... I have tried for many many moons by all the book sellers for them to obtain this rare English Translation of Qur'aan for me ... however not one of them obtained it for me ... so I was Extremely Blessed by Teacher of Qur'aan Ali Kocak from Essenler Istanbul who went out of his way to oblige me to learn from the very best Last Prophet Muhammad SAW and His Mighty Word of Allaah ... The Merciful ... The Architect of the Universe ... Phenomenal Qur'aan ... I have been a huge Godly Believing and Living Woman as I come from a Great Dynasty of God ... in my ancesters ... JOHN KNOX ... the Scottish Church Reformer ... from my Fathers Side ... also from my Fathers Side my Great Grandfather ... Baron Carl von Brandis ... was the First Magistrate of Transvaal here in Johannesburg his statue stands today here on Von Brandis Plein in Johannesburg in the centre of The Law District

I admire the Code of Conduct ... as you can see I come from a background of precision ... and this is what I find in the Qur'aan ... there is No Double Meanings ... it is Precise !

I have immersed myself fully into Islam and it is for me a Tremendous honor and privilege that I now can call myself the mighty blessing word of 'Muslim' ... Islam.

I have made many muslim new friends here online as I have only in the past had Christian one's ... and these new muslim friends have been sending me many very informative links to English Translations of all I need to know about Prophet Muhammad and explanations of The Mighty Qur'aan ... and exactly how to dua .. pray 5 times a day ... this is a tremendous blessing to me all these muslim friends who tirelessly spend hours to send me e-mails and messages containing many informative videos and masses of links of Information for which I am Incredibly humbled by their generosity and I avail myself to read each and every one and spend a great deal of time immersed in watching all the videos of all the truly Great Islam Leaders of Prayer.

The Greatest Blessing for me is to be able to wear The Hijab ... and the first time I wore it in public I felt this tremendous freedom ... and as I walk daily around my community where there is a huge Zimbabwean refugee homeless and needy problem on every single street corner and open piece of field ... I do this one and a half hour prayer ... dua walk and I try to help where I can and pray for this Great Disaster of poverty that we also face here in Pretoria South Africa just as in the rest of the world ...

My Hijab rewards me with great respect here in my region where I live which is the largest Christian Community this side of The Magaliesberg Prayer Mountain in Pretoria South Africa. On each street corner nearly there is a huge Church or congregation hall for Christians ... and it is with great Understanding that possibly I am the ONLY Muslim walking around here with Hijab ... making Statement for Allaaah ... only ONE.

This is not difficult for me to blend in with the Qur'aan and the word of Muhammad as I have always Believed in Only ONE God ... this is not new to me ... I have had an Incredibly Blessed life and been Incredibly Rewarded by Allaah ... and I turned my back on the fame and fortune earlier in my life when it brought me tremendous heartache here in Pretoria South Africa where I was born in 1957 ... and I moved to Leeds United Kingdom in 1998.

Allaah has continued to shine his Ever Merciful Redeeming Noor on me and I have been blessed with the most talented and incredibly gifted 5 children ... my four daughters ... Angelique Potgieter ..31 years old ... Victoria-Jane .. 30 years old ... Brittany Potgieter 29 years old ... Tamarin-Lee 25 years old ... my only son ... Salmon Roy Potgieter 20 years old ... my last two children Tamarin-Lee and my only son Salmon-Roy where totally gifts from Allaah as I was totally sterilized after my third child ... so they were both miracles that the doctors could not believe ... I thank Allaaah for these great miracles ... Subhanullah !I also have two grandchildren the children of my second eldest daughter Victoria Jane ...a girl Jamie-Lee 5 years of age and a boy Jayden 6 years of age... and by the miracle of Allaaah I have one new grandchild ... a little girl on the way from my eldest daughter Angelique ...

I wear my hijab with tremendous humble admiration to Islam and the incredible Peace it has overwhelmed me with more and more ... nothing makes me feel more cleansed and closer to Allaah then when I do dua ... prayer and I read the Surah's of The Qur'aan ... there is Tremendous Solace to be found there as I have been most unfortunate in Love and unfortunately have been divorced twice ... from two very abusive relationships and I had to for my life and self perseverance walk away ...

The Loneliness that comes with this Only Allaah can fill and my heart is always filled with joy because of God.

ALLAH HU AKBAR this is how Much a true Believer Love AL-ISLAM Subhan ALLAH Amazing story:

YAKUZA (JAPANESE MAFIA) TATTOO ARTIST ACCEPTS ISLAM.

Shaykh Abdullah Takazawa from Japan, was previously a tattoo artist for the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia), but when Allah blessed himwith Islam through the Daa'wa of a foreign brother, he traveled to Saudi to make Hajj, then was offered a scholarship to seek knowledge there, where he stayed for several years. He came back to become an Imam in Tokyo.

Masha'Allah, a very, very humble brother! Proves again, you should never exclude anyone.

I made my shahadah Saturday night (18/05/13) in Perth Australia in front of my family, friends and my inlaws. I have always been interested in islam and only got stronger once i met my future husband who is a muslim. I have been doing belajar (studying islam) with a very close relative of my partner and have loved learning about islam. Early Thursday morning (which I found out was fajr time) I woke up and I decided I was ready to revert to Islam.

Alhamdulillah, I have never been so happy and feel proud to call myself a Muslim

a Washington young man meeting with a veiled Muslim girl at a 2007 Washington camp for scholarship winners was the first step towards finding Islam. "I... grew up in Tacoma, and I'd never seen a Muslim," Carlos Sandoval, a graduate of Mount Tahoma High school, told The Bellingham Herald.

"To me at the time — Arab, Islam, Muslim — it was all the same."

Seeing Bashair Alazadi, a 16-year-old Muslim who donned the traditional headscarf, the then 17-year-old Catholic man wanted to dig deep into her character to know about her beliefs.

Born in Iraq, Alazadi relocated with her family to Everett at age 4. She was used to questions about Islam, especially after the events ofSept. 11, 2001. "He asked why I wore the scarf," Alazadi said. "He wanted to see my hair."

As he kept to ask her out, the answer was always no, leaving him only campus limits to talk to her. At this moment, Sandoval decided to go on a challenge to prove that she was brainwashed. "Initially, I hated Islam. I tried to convince her she'd been brainwashed, that her religion was oppressive," he said. "I bought a Qur’an so I could read it and stump her with questions. The more I read, the more I learned, the more I came to appreciate Islam."

A relationship that began as a challenge, Sandoval admitted, changed his life. "Bashair was smarter than me, more articulate. She was more assimilated to this country than I was," he said. "I grew up a Mexican, and there was a stigma attached to that. She grew up Muslim, and there was a stigma for her, too."

Falling in love, Sandoval and Alazadi asked her father for permission to marry on Aug. 29, 2009. "I converted to Islam just before thewedding. I didn't do it just to marry Bashair. I considered it the final step in my study of Islam," he said. "It's not the right path for everyone. It was the right path for me."

Finding Islam with his wife, Sandoval is more likely to defend his new faith against misconception rather than her. "If someone says something that isn't true about Islam, I might ignore them. Carlos will take them on," Alazadi said. "I grew up Muslim, but he knows more about it now than I do.

Alazadi graduated in December and is working as an accountant in Seattle, studying for her certified public accountant credentials.Sandoval graduates next weekend and wants to work in juvenile detention. The happy couple appreciated the way their parents accepted their decisions. "My father didn't like him when he first met him, but now he treats him like a son," Alazadi said.

As for Sandoval, his wife made an impression with his parents from their first meeting together."My parents love Bashair, too," he said."We're proud of the way both our parents accepted us and our decisions."

The United States is home to a Muslim community of between six to eight million. According to a 2011 study by the Pew Forumon Religion and Public Life, about 20 percent of US Muslims are converts to the faith. Of those converts, about 54 percent were menand 46 percent were women. An earlier Gallup poll found that the majority of Americans Muslims are loyal to their country and optimistic about their future in the United States.